Mountain Lion That Made School Go Into Lockdown Turned Out to Be a ‘Fat Cat’ Eating a Rat
It's me; I'm Fat Cat
H8ers will say I can’t write a headline poem + newsletter in 20 minutes.
And this time, the h8rs were right. It took me more like 40 heheh.
I spent at least 8 of those minutes trying to make “Just kitten” work in the poem, but eventually had to give up. Per usual, I found a way to make a rat-eating cat into a hedonist icon and then also wove in a small dig at gun laws.
CASUAL!
Ok here is the article and here’s the poem!
ALSO in case you missed it I was in Louisville, KY this week at the historic Carmichael’s book store (Louisville’s oldest indie book store!) in conversation with Joy Sullivan for her book tour and it was SO fun. It was my first night away from Dawson and I was ALMOST a cool customer about it (it’s called growth!) (and Zoloft!) I got to meet my agent in person for the first time (Joy and I have the same agent! CUTE) and my bff came and we listened to music and got road trip snacks and slept in a fancy hotel and had yummy cocktails and toasted to Joy’s book and mine and it was bliss.
okeeeee ILY and as the Kentucky state motto reads: Preorder my book, ya dingdongs!
Lynds
I love the simplicity of "girl in the world". Isn't that just what we are? Or maybe we're all just Fat Cats are heart. Bravo.
I love this:
"So they ban books on bliss
Remove silliness from the syllabus
Give frivolity a failing grade"